Quotes About Inspiration

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.

Art is for everybody.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.

Art is a sense of magic.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

Why talk when you can paint?

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.